Buffalo Radio Station in Erie County was sold to EMF's K-LOVE
(Prepared by Lincoln Loud & Rhayniel Saldasal Calimpong / Stringer Correspondent of Nickelodeon News and Freelance News Writer, Reporter and Presenter of OneNETnews)
BUFFALO, NEW YORK -- In the first week of June 2023, Educational Media Foundation (EMF) acquired WTSS-FM in the Amherst town of Erie County, the said city of New York was reportedly purchased from Audacy Inc. worth U$D15.5M (roughly PHP865.6M or CAD20.7M). Around last Friday morning at 10am (June 9th, 2023 -- Buffalo local time), a local hot adult contemporary FM radio station Star 102.5 will be moved to a new frequency and rebranded to Kiss 98.5mhz covering between the borders of Southwestern Ontario in Canada and the United States of America (U.S.A.).
(Radio Programme Logo via Star 102.5′s FB Post)
Per morning radio host named Rob Lucas and midday radio host Sue O' Niel told exclusively to Star 102.5, a public christian music radio group will soon join K-LOVE, which is expected to begin broadcasting on the frequency by late mid-June 2023.
Listeners in Canada, particularly in Southwestern Ontario, have been relying on WTSS-FM's powerful signal producing up to 110,000 watts for almost 5 decades now for their daily dose of radio entertainment and news outside the Buffalo area. The FM station has undergone several name changes over the years since mid-November 1946, from WBEN-FM's Rock 102 during its inception in 1974 until its now iconic name as Kiss 98.5.
Along with EMF's ownership of Air1 & K-LOVE, based in the suburb of Franklin in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A., a public non-commercial music radio group serving 1,000 FM stations statewide -- under both the aforementioned christian music radio formats.
(STOCK PHOTO via Townsquare Media)
Aside from WTSS-FM's Kiss 98.5, Townsquare Media is taking over with a new and different frequency after Star 102.5, which is now WMSX-FM's Star 96.1mhz (formerly The Breeze) in Buffalo, per reports from the Radio Insight.
Within moments at the end of the 9am hour, the station will no longer broadcast from this FM dial, causing concern among its targeted or specific demographic audiences. The Canadian and Buffalo listeners of Star 102.5 have been thrown into chaos due to its imminent broadcast closure, because it was nothing to do between the broadcast management of Audacy Inc. and EMF.
In an industry where the listening rating wars and fierce competition abound, such as the music radio sectors with stations like K-LOVE and various FM radio channels in Canada and America, what's favored today may be tomorrow's afterthought.
At present, the FM station turns to their Top 40 and Contemporary Hit Radio needs, which now spans from WKSE-FM to WTSS-FM.
STOCK LOGOS via Google Images
SPECIAL THANKS to DJ Unikitty (formerly ColeThePony in Canada) for sending us a news tip!
SOURCE: *https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/end-of-an-era-in-local-radio-as-star-102-5-is-sold/article_fc35aae8-d7a0-11ed-bd5c-bf9e73a7e0eb.html [Referenced News Article from Buffalo News] *https://radioinsight.com/headlines/250830/audacy-sells-wlfp-memphis-wtss-buffalo-to-educational-media-foundation/ [Referenced News Article via Radio Insight] *https://www.wgrz.com/article/entertainment/buffalo-radio-station-star-1025-signs-off/71-7571bf07-18db-49a0-ad98-e0f32c3a3698 [Referenced News Article via WGRZ-TV's NBC 2: Buffalo] *https://mystar961.com/the-new-star-961/ [Referenced Editorial Blog Article via Star 96.1] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjqfUCpNfGg [Referenced YT Audio via FN32_DXer] *https://www.facebook.com/96782132671/posts/10160278110607672 [Referenced FB Caption Photo via Star 102.5] *https://www.audacy.com/mystar1025/hosts/rob-lucas [Referenced Biography via Star 102.5] *https://www.audacy.com/mystar1025/latest/thank-you-for-listening-to-buffalos-star-102-5 [Referenced Editorial Blog Article via Star 102.5] *https://www.audacy.com/kiss985/latest/welcome-star-102-5-listeners [Referenced Editorial Blog Article via Kiss 98.5] *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTSS *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBKV_(FM) *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMSX *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Media_Foundation and *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacy,_Inc.
-- OneNETnews Team
